Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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Crowds Protest Corruption of Afghan Elections, demand New Polls
Hundreds of Aghans protested Sunday in Kabul against the fraudulent parliamentary elections held this fall in Afghanistan. A quarter of the votes have been thrown […]
Energy Committee Chairman Candidate Says God Promised no More Catastrophic Climate Change after Noah
Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who will seek the Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship maintains that we do not have to worry about climate change because […]
Photo of the Day: Beirut’s Split Personality
Posters on a single column in al-Hamra Street, Beirut, August 2010 © Juan Cole, 2010
Gates, the Adult in the Room, Rebuffs Israeli, Republican Warmongering on Iran
The Military-Industrial-Israel Complex is baaack. The victory of the War Party– … ooops, I mean the Republican Party– at the polls on November 2 was […]
What does Pakistan think of Obama’s India Trip?
Pakistanis are from all accounts rather miffed that President Barack Obama did not stop in Islamabad as part of his Asian tour. The officer corps […]
MSNBC’s Phil Griffith the Worst Person in the World, as Olbermann Joins Donahue, Banfield
With regard to the ‘indefinite suspension’ of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC for having donated small sums to three Democratic candidates, here is a little piece […]
Over 70 Killed in Mosque Bombings, northwestern Pakistan
The Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan) bombed two mosques in Pakistan’s Pashtun northwest on Friday, killing over 70 persons and wounding many others. CSM argues […]
Bachmann Harms US Economy, Security with Scurrilous Charges about Obama in India
One of the great things about the victory of so many eccentrics in the congressional races of 2010 for bloggers is that we can look […]
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Threatens Egyptian, Iraqi Christians
The Guardian argues that Sunni Arab religious radicals (“al-Qaeda”) released from US or Iraqi custody in recent months have formed newly assertive cells and that […]
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